1: Get ready for a fight

4: Rewrite for a film, say

9: Step heavily

14: Constricting snake

15: Wedding service

16: More impolite

17: Throw in the towel

19: Pensive piece of poetry

20: Basketry twigs

21: Elbow

23: Flat rates?

24: Some votes

26: Miles per hour, e.g.

30: Scottish hillside

31: Boarding school biggie

33: Old saloon receptacle

35: Afternoon brew

36: Greek letters

39: Loses a lap

41: Acorn dropper

42: More robust

46: Disloyal

48: Revs

52: Track figures

53: Obnoxious

54: Gin companion

55: Simon ___

57: Thin coating

58: Mechanical learning routines

61: Give padding and cover?

64: Short-sheeting a bed, e.g.

65: Responded to reveille

66: List abbr.

67: Wrestling contests

68: Theater areas

69: Stain, as a fabric

1: Take in

2: Reveille, e.g.

3: Docking facility

4: Declares

5: Clamors

6: Include

7: Capital of Phoenix?

8: Undersea weapon

9: Long haul

10: Foot-long school sticks

11: Pindar product

12: Actress Ryan

13: Get nosy

18: Give a makeup exam to

22: One way to learn by

24: Court divider

25: Feed seed

27: FYI cousin

28: Miffed, with 'off'

29: Segments of history

31: High school subject

32: Players may up it

34: Quarterback's call

36: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

37: Difficult

38: Scratched (out)

40: Special vocabularies

43: Hardly commonplace

44: Abacus part

45: Scheduled

47: Nod of the head, for one

49: Of one mind

50: Degrees in a right angle

51: Rare

54: Stories

56: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

57: Sit before a lens

58: LP measure

59: Unwrought iron

60: Menlo Park monogram

62: Old hand

63: Not share